Founders of Steemit; Dan and Ned in a LIVE interview with Alex Sterk from Blocktalk - Friday 10pm EST

steempower (73) in steem • 9 years ago

Dan and Ned will be special guests in an upcoming #blocktalk episode streaming live to youtube! - Show Starts at: Friday 10pm EST

Guests

Dan Larimer and Ned Scott of Steemit.com
Joshua Bouw of Clubcoin

Time: Friday 10pm EST

Have you got a question you would like asked?

The youtube video has an embedded chat (requires login) that can be used to submit questions throughout the event; otherwise please post any questions you have in the comments below; time is limited so Alex may not have time to ask each and every question although with community input and voting the most valuable questions should rise to the top.

If you see a question you would also like asked make sure to give it an up-vote so it raises to the top. Otherwise feel free to post your own question in the comments

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intelliguy (68) · 9 years ago (edited)

Tell us why people should not be afraid to downvote, and what is the importance of encouraging downvotes when it is appropriate? For instance, many people feel if they are caught downvoting someone it might cause retalliation. Some people are really scared to make use of the downvote function as a result.

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pharesim (74) · 9 years ago

If you downvote a post, there should be a reason other than not agreeing on the statement it makes. The curation is used to bring up "good" content, which is not defined by political or philosophical measures.
Nobody will complain when you downvote spam or plagiarism.

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intelliguy (68) · 9 years ago (edited)

re: "Nobody will complain "
Oh, but you're very wrong.

QUOTE from someone I did that to, who was trying to post mirrored duplicates of archive.org content on steemit:

"This is my post. My link, to a page I find interesting. Stop Trolling ME. Your political moderation downvotes and passive extortion arent healthy"

Someone else was doing same thing. They authored an article on small "news" site, and then copy/pasted a duplicate here, so they could get advertising credits there, and steemit dollars here, so I wrote:

:" So if I go to my blog, and just copy/paste all my articles I've written over the last 3 or 4 years, that should be fine too? I'm wondering if Google won't care if we just duplicate content all over the web?"

Someone else showed up and said:

" Go ahead - it's been done by others and not at all frowned upon."

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pharesim (74) · 9 years ago

Go ahead - it's been done by others and not at all frowned upon.

That was me. An author posting his own work is not plagiarism. It's one of the intended uses of this platform.

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intelliguy (68) · 9 years ago (edited)

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steemed (64) · 9 years ago

However google frowns upon it.

Why would anyone care what google frowns upon here?

By the way, I downvoted your reply. I disagree with what you are saying, but that's not why I downvoted. I downvoted you to make a point about the point you are making.

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tuck-fheman (74) · 9 years ago

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dana-edwards (74) · 9 years ago

I think nudity should be allowed, as well as "free speech zones" on Steemit.

Just like with Reddit, a person should be asked if they are 18+, and if they click yes then it should take them to the unrestricted part of the site. In addition, if people decide then there should be parts of the site with free speech where any sort of opinion can be expressed pseudo-anonymously, but with warnings for people not to give out their personal information.

In my opinion, free speech is more important to a free society than the ability to censor. At the same time for legal reasons, people have to be given the age disclaimer, and be warned up front that a certain part of Steemit is the free speech part.

In the United States the law is pretty clear in favor of free speech. At the same time there is a social need for pseudo anonymous speech which you sometimes see on Reddit or on 4chan so that people can discuss topics which are sensitive but necessary to be discussed.

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blocktrades (74) · 9 years ago (edited)

Unfortunately, the actual law on free speech is far from clear in the US. Lawyers have, over time, massively corrupted the concept of free speech in the US, to the point that actual laws regarding free speech are understood by only a few. If you take a bar exam, you'll find that free speech questions are some of the most tricky to answer because of all the case law you have to know in order to see how this simple concept has been twisted around. This actually goes for most "constitutional law" in general, but the abuse of the concept of free speech is particularly egregious (probably because it's the most "dangerous" to established viewpoints).

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tuck-fheman (74) · 9 years ago

"free speech zones"

I think there should be "non-free speech zones". Everywhere else on the site free speech should be welcome by default.

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tuck-fheman (74) · 9 years ago

laws regarding free speech

The fact that we need laws regarding free speech says a lot about society. ;)

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fuzzyvest (62) · 9 years ago

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blocktrades (74) · 9 years ago (edited)

This could be the first joke on steemit that could only be made on steemit. I'd upvote you, but it would spoil the joke :-)

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dana-edwards (74) · 9 years ago (edited)

I've been having discussions with others on Steemit and two questions have been raised by me and my peers.

Why did Steemit decide to have the 24/hr cutoff for late curators? Content producers realize that late votes still count but we also realize that there is no incentive for curators to vote late. As a result, a post which is discovered too late might not get many votes even if it's greatly valued. I'm not asking that the decision be changed but I would like to hear Dan give a justification for the decision so that we know why it was made.
Myself and other content producers are interested in the referral program. Some of us realize there isn't any direct incentive for us to bring in more content producers even though we also realize that diverse content is what grows the value of the network. The referral program would be mutually beneficial to current content producers who could shift into marketing. In addition, a lot of the skill set of professional social media is in viral or referral marketing and it's a secret weapon which could solidify the first mover advantage Steem is developing. This question is more of a request as well as a question but when will the referral program be activated?

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cryptogee (75) · 9 years ago

Good questions, especially number 1

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will-zewe (61) · 9 years ago (edited)

Can we get some back pay for this referral thing? Lmao, I'm killing it right now, well 8 people so far directly through me, all who haven't touched crypto's before though so I think I'm doing alright lol.

P.s. This is a joke I'm totally stoked just promoting this site based on the basic credentials and offerings of the site alone. But I mean if a referral program was set in place I wouldn't be opposed lol.

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markopaasila (65) · 9 years ago

I've heard there are plans to integrate ipfs. When / if ipfs gets filecoin up and going, how will storage be payed for? We can't count on storage being zero-cost forever, can we?

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teamsteem (74) · 9 years ago

This is going to be awesome!

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vdoh (52) · 9 years ago (edited)

I think it is worth sorting a question of boats, automatic upvote of articles of whales. And still very much interests a question of localization on other languages.
Я думаю стоит поднять вопрос о ботах , автоматическом upvote статей китов. И еще очень интересует вопрос локализации на другие языки.